Talk:Rudolf Roessler

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Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Was he a freemason? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.207.243.90 (talk) 23:29, 2 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

Discredited sources?

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Some of the information in this article (in particular the names of Roessler's sources) appears to come from Accoce and Quet La Guerre été gagnée en Suisse (1966) which, according to Josef Garlinski The Swiss Corridor (1980), has been discredited: "the authors, under great pressure from several sources, were unluckily forced to admit they had in fact made the whole thing up". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greghawkins (talk • contribs) 14:18, 7 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

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He was given the nickname Lucy, short for Lucerne, where he lived. The one condition for his services was that he would never name his sources.

The order of how the Russians received Roessler's information was this: the contacts would send information to Roessler. From Roessler, he would transmit the information to Christian Schneider, his boss. From Schneider to Rado, then Foote, and finally to Moscow.

During Operation Barbarossa, Roessler was able to get information for the complete order of battle including codenames, individual battalions down to the soldier, precise times and directions of attack, senior officers down the corps commanders, and the intention of each individual attack.

When Roessler received this information, he tried to give it to the Swiss to relay to the Russians, but the Swiss refused to share the information. Through other contacts, he was able to alert the Russians. However, the Russian "center" believed Roessler to be an agent provocateur or double agent, and disregarded his information. On 22 June 1941, Germany launched its invasion of the Soviet Union.

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Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

His archive he created.
His mercenary nature.
His desire to stay hidden. Kesaris has details.
Some work on the sources. They are wrong at the moment.
His introduction to Rote Drei
Some work on Der spiegel info. Don't know if it worth adding that in. scope_creep^Talk 16:00, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

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Latest comment: 10 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

In 1947 Czechoslovac rep. (CSR) was not yet socialist. This title (CSSR) was introduced only at the beginning of 1960s 2A00:1028:9196:A1E6:D069:9FE2:EF4A:1FA1 (talk) 23:57, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

I've changed it. scope_creep^Talk 00:10, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

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